Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will be forced to cut nearly 11,000 jobs, including 6,400 teaching positions, in its 2011 fiscal year budget, due to what he calls “Albany’s
The clock is tickingat Oorahs 2010 Auction! Oorah has extended their Last Chance deadline to enter to win $250,000 in prizes. You can still make your purchase now at oorah.org/auction/. You can win 46 fabulous prizes and receive free gifts for only $5 per ticket! In addition, there is a special bonus for entering online […]
Washington, DC – In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed
12:35PM EST: An Emirates Airlines jet has been stopped on a JFK Airport taxiway, amid reports of a ‘no-fly’ passenger on board. The FAA has confirmed toCBS News that flight #204 [to Dubai] has been blocked from departing JFK Airport byCustoms and Border Protection agents, and Department of Homeland Security personnel. According to NBC News,the […]
Former Shas Leader R’ Aryeh Deri warns against the growing alarming anti-religious trend in Israel in an interview in the weekly Shaah Tovah Magazine. Deri was asked to comment on the growing secularist movement which seems committed to the ideals of the late Tommy Lapid, the founder of the Shinui Party. He stated the core […]
[By Chaskel Bennett] After months of uncharacteristic silence, New York’s senior senator, Charles Schumer, finally voiced his concerns — and it could not have come at a more crucial time for American-Israeli relations. Schumer, apparently wary of breaking ranks, had made a difficult tactical decision to not publicly challenge the administrations misguided and increasingly alarming […]
The suspect in the attempted car bombing in Times Square is believed to have completed a test run three days before driving an explosive-packed SUV into the heart of the
Yahadut HaTorah MK R Moshe Gafne is proposing a unique solution to bring an end to the controversy surrounding the proposed fortified emergency room at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. The new idea is taken from the state-of-the-art Italian equipment used to construct the Minheret Carmel Tunnel, a project in which care was taken not to […]
New Delhi – The lone surviving Pakistani gunman in a 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai was sentenced Thursday to die for his role in the bloody siege that killed about 166 people and strained relations between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan. Ajmal Amir Kasab, 22, convicted of killing 52 people, sat still in the courtroom […]
A 9-y/o boy was found in cardiac arrest in his bed on Ben Ish-Chai Street in Beit Shemesh. He was pronounced dead following unsuccessful advanced life support resuscitation. After a
The head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is working to apply pressure on Israel towards compelling Jerusalem to join the nuclear nonproliferation treaty member nations. In
WCBSTV reports: They are memories so painful, they’re fueling a heated debate in an unexpected spot. A neighborhood in Verona, New Jersey is divided over a Holocaust memorial. Some residents
Authorities have determined that a moving truck abandoned on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly known as Triborough Bridge, did not pose a threat. Police closed off the bridge for
Court officials seated a jury in the state’s child labor case against former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin this afternoon. Associate District Court Judge Nathan Callahan swore in eight people —
Nashville, Tenn.s small Jewish community has pooled its resources in the wake of the citys worst floods in more than 70 years, providing shelter, food, assistance and counseling to some of the thousands of local residents forced from their homes. At the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Bellevue, one of three Red Cross shelters in […]
New York – Is Osama Bin Laden hiding out in Iran? The nation’s controversial leader says he doesn’t know – maybe he’s in D.C. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad deflected the question
Iranian Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi earlier in the week announced Irans new anti-missile system which is capable of taking out incoming cruise missiles. “Experts at the defense ministry have succeeded in building a short-range air-defense artillery system that is able to fire 4,000 shots per minute,” Vahidi said in an interview with FNA. “The […]
One of three leaks at a ruptured well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, officials announced Wednesday morning. The Coast Guard says oil company BP has
The Village Voice is releasing some shocking recordings made inside a Brooklyn police precinct. The newspaper has obtained hundreds of hours of recordings from a police officer, who secretly taped
Faisal Shahzad was permitted to board a plane more than 10 hours after the feds put him on a no-fly list because the airline hadn’t updated its files, officials said.
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